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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
One would think a pre-emptive strike against a country is supposed to prevent further fighting, right?
Reuters: "U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday that American forces would not defeat Iraq's rebels but would make way for Iraqis to put down an insurgency that could go on for a decade or more."
Is Rumsfeld out of his mind? Perpetual war for perpetual peace. So forget about the peace.
Herald-Dispatch: "We may now be only weeks away from a complete collapse of the Iraqi army and the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in the face of overwhelming public pressure on Tony Blair.
That is a realistic projection based on the reports of two Washington Post reporters, whose dispatches from inside Iraqi Army units and U.S. units assigned to train and work with the Iraqi military have just been published.
What the Post reporters found was massive disenchantment on both sides: American forces bitterly disappointed with the Iraqi government forces, and Iraqi troops harboring similar feelings toward their American counterparts. Only a small percentage of all Iraqi troops are now estimated to be adequately trained to take over the defense of their country. Desertions are widespread.
Recent surveys in Iraq have shown that insurgents are overwhelmingly Iraqis, not foreign fighters."
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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